#for like very limited benefit

[cruelsister-moved2]

who knows hopefully this will age really badly but i wish americans understood that there could never be an irish reunification like. anywhere in our lifetime probably. and if there WAS it would most likely provoke a brutal civil war. and most importantly - due to said threat of civil war - most people who actually live in the north just want like. peace. equality. an end to sectarianism. and not to be cynical but irish reunification wouldn’t actually do much to address the issues faced there i.e poverty, sectarianism, lack of healthcare/womens & LGBT rights etc etc. which are issues with their roots in british occupation so you know it’s all delicately interconnected but its mildly frustrating to see the sopping wet kitten of europe like only ever being discussed as revolution fantasy material for irish americans 😐

[torchickentacos]

Very rarely I'll (accidentally) find someone who's blocked me on pokemon tumblr, and realistically I know that they probably saw one of my posts too many times and just got sick of seeing it or I simply annoy them or whatever. But part of me really wants to believe that my pokemon anime opinions were just too much for someone. I want to believe that someone saw me say 'The absol scene needed better build-up to justify Drew talking to one of his pokemon like that, it goes against everything we've seen of him imo' or whatever and they just put a hand over their heart, wounded, and clicked the block button while cursing my family for several generations, past and future. I really want to think that I had a lukewarm enough drew opinion that someone blocked me about it

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent lounging babey images

[rabbithaver]

every so often i will see a post from a leftist on this website that is so egregiously ableist that i remember that like. oh yeah the userbase of leftists on this website is violently anti-disabled people and will jump at any chance to demonize any of us for any reason. i just forget that fact because i'm extremely dedicated to curating my space

i'm paraphrasing here but i saw a post that said, "every time i see an American [disabled person] mention being scared about the election because they're afraid of losing their benefits i have to laugh. anybody who wants blood-soaked money from the US government deserves to starve" which. like. goodness that's a lot to unpack. i think we should burn the whole suitcase instead !

[britneyshakespeare]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

[hella1975]

im thinkign about him

[mbat]

how ive been feeling lately

[dandelion-wings]

I'm probably never going to finish and post the specific fic I opened with this (that's intentional, it's a writing experiment), but one of my favorite exchanges I've ever written and also a fun meta vibe for me in general is:

KAEYA: How was your date with Lisa?

JEAN: What date?

KAEYA: Your weekly dinner?

JEAN: Those aren't dates!

KAEYA: ...does Lisa know that?

[vermillioncrown]

at the risk of sounding butthurt for talking about not being butthurt: going through quals really prepared me for trawling through fandom meta and research while keeping my zen

[neo-shitty]

🚦.

[james-stark-the-writer]

one of the very few videos from people i've seen that treats Riverdale like it's a show actually trying to say something and to be considered worthy of good-faith analysis instead of writing it off as trashy fun or as something stupid and it's so refreshing honestly like kind of restores a little bit of my faith in humanity. but yeah. anyway, this is a great fucking video and you should go watch it if you haven't.

[veiledmonarch]

all americans benefit from American imperialism because you can use the united states dollar to mobilize the resources of other countries

[mxtxfanatic]

She had been physically abused so many times. Perhaps she had run away before, but she was hauled back by her hair. She suffered all these for a long time—long enough that the abuses started even before the war. What was Yan Junxun doing before the war? He forgot. But that did not matter. His memory was not worth mentioning. In any case, the murderer endured it for a very long time.

—Chapt. 24: Clarity

What a beautiful piece of foreshadowing!

[starlooove]

Genuine answer tho kindaaaa because my entire point with the tim wealth thing is that even if the point about it not having much basis in canon was true (which. Lmao) it’s still gonna impact how he’s written by the writers and viewed by the fans; when it comes to writing stories a lot of people see middle class as the Relatable class which is precisely why I think those hardcore Tim Stans are pushing it so much

[wumblr]

now that the statute of limitations has expired, i can say that during the pandemic, my apartment complex at the time tried to change the laundry room hours to business hours, and i very calmly and quietly went down, took a cinderblock off the garden wall, and threw it through the glass door. and it stayed open til 9pm, and we never heard about changing hours again. sometimes you have to throw a cinderblock in a very businesslike manner, i'm saying. this is a negotiation, among stakeholders, and i would like to make clear that the cost/benefit balance sheet used to make the decision to change the hours was missing a variable

[neon-zoologist]

re what I just reblogged - I absolutely suck at small talk, but I genuinely like it! It's perfect for me as a person who does need a certain level of social interaction, but also easily gets overwhelmed if I have too many close friends. and having the sense of community it gives is nice. like i don't really have any (close) uni friends, but because of small talk I don't feel alone in my classes and can ask people for help if need be.